Category: Funerals/Burial
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Warning: Deconstruction Zone Ahead
It is time to consider what awaits us if the other rites of the Church receive the same treatment as the Missal.
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Mourning a Life, with iPad Candles
I find myself intrigued by the rich rituals that have emerged to mourn the loss of Steve Jobs, the cultural icon of our media-savvy, technology-driven times.
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Dissolving the saints?
From the BBC: New body ‘liquefaction’ unit unveiled in Florida funeral home.
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UPDATED: Homily & Eulogy, Lawrence Madden, SJ
Homily by Fr. James Walsh, SJ. Eulogy by Paul Covino. Holy Trinity Church on June 4, 2011.
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Funeral Mass for Abbot Timothy Kelly, OSB
The funeral Mass for Abbot Timothy Kelly, OSB, was celebrated on October 13, 2010. Here are the program and several video clips.
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Verboten! Secular songs at funerals
No more romantic ballads, pop or rock music, political songs, football club songs at funerals in the Melbourne archdiocese.
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An heretofore unremarked addition to the GIRM?
Preparing liturgy is one of the most important tasks of everyone involved, presider, ministers, and assembly. Whatever mechanism for preparing liturgy a parish chooses (committee, advisory board, or the like), it needs to pay great attention to the rules of good communication and good liturgy.
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Death by eulogy
Earlier PrayTell posted the sad news of the death of Fr. James Field of Boston. Today US Catholic posts his wise and witty remarks on the problem of eulogies at Catholic funerals.